First Amendment Tapestry

The First Amendment is on a grocery store prayer rug. The Bill of Rights is the closest text we have to a holy book, and it gives me the right to express who I am and what I believe. I cannot be silenced before speaking. It will always make me emotional that this amendment is the first, as it makes expression the paramount value of this land, from which all other liberties are possible. Yet we do no service to such laws by restraining them to a life of text. Calligraphy transforms these words into totemic images, creating an experience of reverence and recognition.